Thoughts and experience of a city girl

"Are you Malaysian or Japanese?" What kind of taxi driver would ask that when u first hop into their cabs? I would say Malaysian one! I had that experience quite some time ago when I took a cab from Puduraya to Midvalley. Before the taxi driver start the meter, he turned around and asked "are u Malaysian or Japanese?" I was puzzled, but told him politely that I am local and why did he ask so? He said if I am a foreigner, he wouldn’t use the meter and would charge me a high flat rate! I was surprised at his guts to even say that. I am speechless, this is total crap.

Yesterday, after hitting the gym in the evening, I waited patiently at one of the entrance of KLCC for my dad to pick me up. It was raining pretty heavily and there’s a long queue for taxis, everyone looking anxious to get a cab and get to their destinations soon. As all KL people know, we have one of the worst taxi drivers around. Don’t get me wrong, I am not generalizing on ALL but I dare say, most of them. Those taxi drivers would ’stop’ to pick up passengers at the stand, but before the passengers could board the taxi, they actually have to ‘ask permission’ whether or not the taxi driver is going to their place of destination and then bargain for a good price. Most of the time, the taxi drivers would just drove off, with no passenger in it! They seem to have a specified destinations they wanna go, so if the passengers are not heading there, then that’s too bad. I am totally embarrassed with their attitudes, and how uncivilized they are.

I guess this situation is going to be around for a long long time, this is one thing I am really sad being a Malaysian. Hard to be proud when this involves the country’s image.

I didn’t realize how much I miss having a good session of girl talk til last Saturday. Well, half of my close friends are studying overseas, so it’s hard to get everyone together for a nice outing/chat. A few of my secondary school friends and I met up at Bangsar Village for dinner. Then we proceeded to Telawi Street Bistro for a drink + snack.

As we were busy catching up with each other’s life, we always reflect back to our secondary days, we have know each other for 10 years. We talked from how much we have changed (or how little for some) to predicting who’s going to marry next. But the interesting part of a girl talk is always about relationships.

I found myself pouring my past experiences to my friends, most of them were known already but the recent past few years were still ‘new’ to my friends. I must say they were pretty amazed with some of my stories, which make me wonder, how did I pull through or get myself into some of the situations. But it is always comforting to feel that whatever happen, I will have these friends to fall back on, never have they failed me before and I am truly glad for that. These are the people I wanna share my lives’ ups and downs with, cos besides my family, they see how I have grown to be who I am now.

I never really have any close gal friends since secondary days, I simply come out with the conclusion that I am not very good in making friends with gals.  Now, you see why I miss girl talk so much…